From Khalid Lyamlahy’s ‘A Foreign Novel’
Also read the author-translator’s note, part of our special section on self-translation. By Khalid Lyamlahy Translated by Khalid Lyamlahy Excerpt 1 – Queuing at the Prefecture On my right, people […]
On Translation
Self-Translation Never Lands
This is part of a special section on self-translation. By Mona Kareem When I first started writing poems in Arabic at the age of ten, I called them “foreign poems.” […]
Special Section: On Self-translation
In this special section on self-translation, authors and author-translators Mona Kareem, Khalid Lyamlahy, Deena Mohamed, Dunya Mikhail, and Ali Shakir reflect on what it means to transport their own writing from one of their languages to another.
Writing it Twice Is the New Original
This is part of a special section on self-translation. By Dunya Mikhail Writing a poem is exploring a new world, and the first feeling that usually accompanies it is doubt. […]
What Is the Self in Self-Translation?
This is part of a special section on self-translation. By Ali Shakir Trivia What does the “self” in “self-translator” stand for? A hand that slices a bilingual author’s entity in […]
On Drawing Self-Translation
This is part of a special section on self-translation. By Deena Mohamed * Deena Mohamed is an Egyptian illustrator and designer. Her graphic novel trilogy Shubeik Lubeik was awarded Best […]
Najwan Darwish and the Politics/Poetics of Translating Exhaustion
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“Nothing could be more befitting than Kushājim’s epigrammatic riddles.”